Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 11:15 AM ( 5 views )
- Compliance - Posted by Administrator
Providers are faced with decisions on if a practice consultant should be used to help build their practice, and, if so, what consultant to use. Good care and judgment must be used by providers before signing on with a consultant that is based on using some due diligence to check the consultants background and to determine if what they advertise is too good to be true - especially considering many advertise that they will help increase your income. After choosing your consultant then you must ensure that the instruction advocated by the consultant is consistent with all relevant laws, rules and guidelines before you implement - miss this step and you could...
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Monday, July 21, 2008, 07:23 PM ( 1 view )
- General - Posted by Administrator
Many providers, per instructions from practice building consultants, engage in screening activity, at times using devices that are not recognized clinically or scientifically, to facilitate the development of new patients that is often reported to be a public service as you may be hurt and not know it. Is this activity a "public service" or a "wallet biopsy"?
Monday, July 21, 2008, 07:15 PM ( 1 view )
- Fraud - Posted by Administrator
Some practice consultants instruct their provider clients to administer and bill Range of Motion and/or Muscle Testing on the next visit following an exam for purposes of increasing revenues. This billing practice is instructed for purposes of increasing revenues by the rendering provider avoiding accusations of unbundling activity, as the tests would be considered part of the exam service. However, in doing so, could the provider be faced with more serious allegations?Monday, July 21, 2008, 06:54 PM ( 1 view )
- Fraud - Posted by Administrator
Quick codes are used by some providers that could result in the billing of servics that were not rendered by the provider. With this billing practice the provider's billing staff enters a single (quick) code, usually based on the patient's type of insurance, into the pratice's billing system that results in a serious of CPT Codes being billed to insurers.Monday, July 21, 2008, 03:49 PM ( 3 views )
- General - Posted by Administrator
CCC web-site can now be accessed by typing in cccpfc.com as well as using our old address chiropracticcomplianceconsultants.net



